USA

"...one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws" -- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dear President Obama, On August 3rd, 2009, over 140 of us will be returning from Cuba --…
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By Tom Hayden From the Huffington Post Apparent differences between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are threatening to confuse American policy towards the coup in Honduras. The…
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By Lorenzo A. Cañizares After watching the debate on the House Bill on climate change, Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize economist and New York Times columnist, referred to the Republican…
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By Bill Press Good things don't come easily. It took 239 days, but the Minnesota Supreme Court finally declared Al Franken the winner over Norm Coleman. And suddenly Democrats have 60…
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By Max J. Castro The sad, sad life of Michael Jackson is over. Money did not buy him happiness or even peace. But, upon his death, his story monopolized the media for more than a week.…
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By Saul Landau From May 2000 to August 2005, Brazil lost more Amazon land to “development” than all of Greece. Since 1971, corporate ranchers and agribusiness cleared tens of thousands…
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By Bill Press Oh, the Appalachian Trail. It's famous as the longest footpath in the nation -- but now we know it's even longer than we thought, stretching all the way from Maine to…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.org Regardless of who really won the Iranian election, the brutal reaction of the theocratic regime to peaceful protests has destroyed any legitimacy…
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By Saul Landau You know bad times have hit when Illinois budget cuts no longer permit the state to bury dead indigents. A letter to funeral homes from the Department of Human Services…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times (June 25, 2009) When it comes to domestic policy, there are two Barack Obamas. On one side there’s Barack the Policy Wonk, whose command of the…
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